The Dimitri Payet saga is over after Marseille made his move away from West Ham official on Sunday night.
The 29-year-old has signed a four-and-a-half-year deal after a £25million deal was agreed between the clubs earlier in the day.
A statement on West Ham's official website read: "West Ham United have sold Dimitri Payet to Olympique de Marseille for a fee of £25m.
The French midfielder has been sold after stating that he no longer wished to play for the Hammers."
Marseille's official Twitter profile posted a short video of the player smiling and giving the thumbs up, with the caption: "[Olympique Marseille] agree terms with West Ham to bring french international @dimpayet17 back to the club."
His co-chairman David Sullivan is disappointed by Payet's behaviour and would have preferred for him to remain at the club, where he'd been shunned from first-team training, to be made an example of.
"The club would like to place on record its sincere disappointment that Dimitri Payet did not show the same commitment and respect to West Ham United that the club and fans showed him, particularly when it rewarded him with a lucrative new five-and-half-year deal only last year," he said on the club's website.
"I would like to make it clear that we have no financial need to sell our best players and that the decision to allow Payet to leave was in accordance with the wishes of the manager and the interests of squad unity.
"To be frank, my board and I would have preferred for him to have stayed in order to make an example of him, as no player is bigger than the club.
"I am confident that with the quality of the players we have brought in during January already, the squad will be stronger at the end of this transfer window than it was at the start.
"We now look forward to building on our recent good run of form with five league wins in the last seven matches as we focus on continuing our rise up the Premier League table."
Payet travelled to France on Sunday morning after he was given permission by the Hammers to complete his medical, which he duly passed.
He earlier took to Twitter to confirm he was homeward bound with a picture as he prepared to board a private jet.
West Ham made it clear that they wanted Payet - who has insisted his desire to leave is not about money - to prove as much by giving back a £1m bonus payment he was handed back in September.
The payment was made in October in a bid to appease Payet after he returned from his Euro2016 commitments with France unsettled and wanting to leave.
It is not yet known whether this payment was made and rather than wait for the morning to unveil the big money signing a smiling Payet was revealed on social media.
But he made it clear earlier this month that he no longer wanted to play or train with the Hammers.
Boss Slaven Bilic went public on the row after Payet refused to budge on his stance.
Defending the Frenchman’s, his camp are insistent that he only wants to leave for family reasons and that he is not motivated by finance.
Payet is set to earn £100,000-a-week at Marseille, £25,000-a-week less than his West Ham salary.
But the Irons want him to prove money really isn’t his motivating factor by giving back the cash they believed would convince him to stay.
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